This new restaurant & cocktail bar is a space where time stops: a glass box in the craziness of Shanghai. It is a connection between the past and the future of the megalopole: we observe the city from high, but we are actors of what happens down there.

The cocktail bar on the first floor is moodier and more enigmatic and drenched in lush velvets, ghoulish fixtures and eclectic props. By the time you’ve completely surrendered to The Locksmith’s charm, you enter the rooftop garden where animals run wild amidst overgrown vines, brass monkeys and floral motifs.

Inspired by the beautiful simplicity of nature, the restaurant blends contrasting textures such as marble, wood and granite with dynamic lighting and gray scale tones to create a modern, beguiling ambience.

Customers are treated as guests in Simon’s house, where everything is designed to make them feel good: the music, low lights, mirrors and colored velvet furnishing. The experience is enchanting and immersive: cocktails are unusual and can be chosen from menus collected by the host during his trips around the world or improvised by the inspiration of the moment.

In the centre, the service area sits below a large volume that the architects refer to as “the cloud”. This element is clad with vertical white-painted wooden batons, and tilts up at one end to direct customers to where they can order. “The loftiness of the space with natural lighting creates a fresh openness and the cloud serves as a visual focal point to balance the space,” they said.

Specialist restaurant and retail design company o1creative is pleased to announce details of its work for food and drink group “rhubarb” in designing the dining venues on the roof of London’s new Sky Garden, opened this month at 20 Fenchurch Street.

The brand identity is inspired by the special sky colours in this city during two moments of a beach day: dawn and sunset. Furthermore those colours also are very linked to the chromatic range presented on its exotic fruits and playful cocktails.

The ground floor is now one large open space with sliding glass panels, the space is multi-functional and features a reception desk by day and cocktail bar for events and at the far end of the building, the Red Bull Lounge provides a space to meet, greet and entertain guests.

On the following floor shoppers will find the exclusive domain of bespoke denim, a first on the planet for the brand. It comes with a service that allows individual style tailoring with fabrics, fits, details, hand painting and other options.